Description
Location:
Belfast
Workplace:
Hybrid
The opportunity:
The Network Operations Engineer will support and maintain the Local and Wide-area networks. With the team, the role-holder will take ownership of the full lifecycle of Network Operations ensuring business needs are met and the Firm's information assets are secured and protected as per the ISMS standards. Some specific responsibilities and functions include the administration, analysis, design, installation, maintenance, operation, documentation, and planning of infrastructure and networks.
Working at Baker McKenzie:
Baker McKenzie is the world’s leading law firm with offices all over the world. Our Belfast Centre is home to over 400 colleagues in both legal and professional services.
We offer one of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan. These and a host of other benefits make us one of the most desirable companies to work for in Belfast.
We are committed to promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity for all and are confident we can provide a career as individual and as exceptional as you.
Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the firm’s network infrastructure
- Maintain network hardware in an operational condition as mandated by internal and external SLAs
- Remediate incidents within defined Service Level Agreement guidelines
- Monitor internal and external compliance within the Firm's information security policies and procedures as described in ISMS: identify non-compliant practices and rectify
- Perform performance assessments and generally monitor network performance to establish and improve internal and external service level agreements
- Maintain the Firm's network-related information repositories
- Perform other relevant functions and tasks as assigned by the Network Operations Supervisor and Global Network Manager
Skills and Experience:
- Cisco CCNA, CompTIA Network+ or applicable experience operating a large enterprise network
- Routing and switching experience in Campus and Data Center networks including L2/L3 troubleshooting, BGP, OSPF
- Able to configure and operate industry-leading next-generation firewall devices including Palo Alto and Cisco Firepower
- Able to gather and analyze facts, draw conclusions, define problems and suggest solutions
- Excellent organization, communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to multitask, problem solve and liaise at various levels within and outside the organization
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Familiar with network automation and configuration management tools